LUCKNOW: A day after dacoits shot dead two persons and injured two others before fleeing with cash and ornaments worth Rs 4 lakh from RK Jewellers in Krishnanagar, police detained 10 persons, including a serving and a former employee of the shop, for questioning. Police have also released CCTV footage of two suspects who reportedly conducted recce in the area a month ago.

The footage shows two persons who visited a jewellery shop located next to RK Jeweller store on February 3 and behaving in a suspicious manner. The other eight persons detained were accused in thefts that took place in Krishnanagar in the past.

According to the police, three robbers entered the jewellery store around 9.30pm on Saturday and fired 11 rounds during the loot, injuring RK Gupta, owner of the shop, and killing his employee Guddu Patwa. A guard in a nearby ATM who challenged the miscreant was also shot dead. A passerby woman also suffered a bullet injury. But Gupta’s nephew Akash on Sunday lodged a police complaint claiming as per an other employee of the shop there were five assailants. Thereafter, police registered a case of dacoity instead of loot.

Circle officer Krishnanagar Lal Pratap Singh said the modus operandi was the same as in Babuganj loot in February 2015, when two bikers had gunned down three persons and robbed Rs 50 lakh from an ATM during its refilling. In both cases, bikers were wearing helmet and had opened indiscriminate firing with sophisticated weapons.

SSP Kalanidhi Naithani said they have zeroed in on five gangs and 50 other criminals known for committing such loots.

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